Jim Wightman and Mark Reynolds: Climate change is a winning issue

In the homestretch of the 2020 campaign, presidential candidate Joe Biden leaned hard into the issue of climate change, running climate-focused ads in swing states. He bet this issue would now be a winner, and it paid off. The votes have been tallied, and candidate Biden is now President-elect Biden.Yet his party doesn’t have unified control of our federal government. Biden will govern alongside a Democratic House, a conservative Supreme Court and a Senate with either a slim Republican or